Future of LINUX

[minthaka]

It depends on the development policy. The year 2008 was of Linux, first of all, because of Vista fiasco and the stability of KDE 3.5.8. This year... I doubt in it. The KDE 4 is very nice, but if you are using your PC "in depth" you will find it still very unstable. And this will drop down the number of Linux newcomers. I see a conquest toward the Windows, which is done via ntfs-3g, wubi, and a cross-platform KDE4 milestones. I don't see the latter two very useful, but someones do. Linux will break down the wide range targeted commercial softwares, and only the highly specialized applications will be payable.

[SkittleLinux18]

anyone who watches tv these days knows what they mean when they say PC. Look at the Apple vs PC, I'm a PC, etc...
OK, remove PC, insert Windows OS...

And continuing to talk that way promotes the very misconception and lack of knowledge you are trying to advocate. So take TechieMoe's advice and refer to them as they are.

It depends on the development policy. The year 2008 was of Linux, first of all, because of Vista fiasco and the stability of KDE 3.5.8. This year... I doubt in it. The KDE 4 is very nice, but if you are using your PC "in depth" you will find it still very unstable. And this will drop down the number of Linux newcomers. I see a conquest toward the Windows, which is done via ntfs-3g, wubi, and a cross-platform KDE4 milestones. I don't see the latter two very useful, but someones do. Linux will break down the wide range targeted commercial softwares, and only the highly specialized applications will be payable.

I think this says it all. Great post minthaka!

[elija]

It depends on the development policy. The year 2008 was of Linux, first of all, because of Vista fiasco and the stability of KDE 3.5.8. This year... I doubt in it. The KDE 4 is very nice, but if you are using your PC "in depth" you will find it still very unstable. And this will drop down the number of Linux newcomers. I see a conquest toward the Windows, which is done via ntfs-3g, wubi, and a cross-platform KDE4 milestones. I don't see the latter two very useful, but someones do. Linux will break down the wide range targeted commercial softwares, and only the highly specialized applications will be payable.

Let's not forget the wonderfully stable and easy to use Gnome, or even my favourite XFCE; KDE 4 is not the only choice and some distros have chosen to stick with KDE 3.x anyway for the time being.

[minthaka]

You're right, elija!
Even if I don't like Gnome, I will stick to it until the next Spring release of Mandriva. It seems to me now that this is the only really stable environment at a moment. It's nice to see, how XFCE improves, and that KDE4 will rock in a year, but I'm sad that I have to wait until then!

[MikeTbob]

You're right, elija!
Even if I don't like Gnome, I will stick to it until the next Spring release of Mandriva. It seems to me now that this is the only really stable environment at a moment. It's nice to see, how XFCE improves, and that KDE4 will rock in a year, but I'm sad that I have to wait until then!

I'm using Gentoo and I have no KDE-v4.2.3 stability issues.I think all day yesterday I had two crashes, one was probably my fault, I tried to kill an app with the kill command and I killed the wrong process. The second one was just a plain ol' plasma crash while tinkering in the systemsettings/samba menu. My main gripe with KDE is the unfinished apps like Amarok and Printing. I'd almost bet KDE-4 will be more than usable before Mandriva Spring.

[engless]

Been using Linux for over ten years. Haven't had windows running on my pc since the last time it went haywire, taking my first linux partition with it. Grrr! Can't say I miss it much ( apart from a few games).

[bigtomrodney]

I'm using Gentoo and I have no KDE-v4.2.3 stability issues.I think all day yesterday I had two crashes, one was probably my fault, I tried to kill an app with the kill command and I killed the wrong process. The second one was just a plain ol' plasma crash while tinkering in the systemsettings/samba menu. My main gripe with KDE is the unfinished apps like Amarok and Printing. I'd almost bet KDE-4 will be more than usable before Mandriva Spring.

I'm using a recent Amarok (2.0.2 I think) and it's pretty good, certainly a lot better. I've also tested even newer builds and they've polished the plasma pane a lot which is good but also some of the other functionality is coming back.

I also would like to say that managing mp3 players is now even easier. There's no more messing around, it just works. They pop up as another collection in the collection pane and you can drag and drop between.